The Shadow
- Based on a true story -
When I was younger I used to live in California. The area that I lived in was filled with empty and abandoned buildings. Me and my friends (Katy and John) were very curious about what the building next to the park was. Note: The park and the building had space in between each other.
The next day we decided to go explore the building. Katy in the other hand was scared, in the end we finally convinced her there was nothing to be scared of. To say the truth.. I was kind of scared too. The clock finally hit 7:00 PM, we packed our bags and we were ready to go. Contents of backpack: Flare, Flashlight and a Walkie Talkie.
The building was almost a mile away, but I knew we could get there swiftly. When we finally reached the building.. it was terrifying, the windows were broken the bricks were cracked and the building itself was so overgrown that it looked like the vines were grabbing the building underground. From what I could see it looked like an abandoned hospital or something. Despite the fact that it was getting dark and we had to get back at 9:00 PM, we still wanted to see what was behind that old wooden door.
By the time we reached the front step, we were all shaking. “Why are we doing this anyway?” Katy asked “You wanted to see what was inside right?” John said “No way!” Katy shouted, I tried to stop them from screaming but they were just ignoring me. THUD we all got silent.. We were looking around to see what made the loud noise, funally in the distance we saw a dead tree branch that had falled on a bench. “Well, are we going in or not?” I asked “You first” Katy said.
As we pushed the front door open we could hear the loud squeaking noise that the door made. “This reminds me of a scary movie” John said. As we walked inside I felt like something bad was going to happen. On the left there was a long hallway that led to lots of rooms, and on the right was a cafeteria. We decided to go check out the cafeteria first since it was the closest to us. From the distance I could see a white flashing light bulb. “Can you see that!” Katy said terrified “I’m pretty sure we all can Katy” John said “Shut up!” Katy starts “Guys just stop fighting for once” I said.
As we were getting closer to the counter we could see old newspapers and different kinds or cooking tools. “Guys check this out” I said “What” John replies right away. “This newspaper is from 1989!” I said “Wow this place must be very old” Katy said. As we were searching trough the drawers we heard a loud bang in the upstairs area. I ran towards the door while John and Katy followed. “Wait up why are you so scared it could have been a cat!” John teased “Sorry it was just my reflexes” I lied. What made us wonder was why Katy was acting to normal “It doesn't matter I guess” I said to myself.
As we walked toward the stretchy hallway I started to feel scared, it was probably because I was the front of the line. When I reached the first door down the hallway, I stopped and took a peek inside.. It was empty “What is in there” Katy asked “Nothing really” I replied “Lets split up and check trough the other rooms” John insisted “Ok I will go alone and you go with Katy” I declared “Ok” they both replied. When I got to the 2nd room it was filled with papers and a flipped bed. “Hm weird” I whispered to myself. At the 3rd room I got tired of checking each and every room and I just started scanning trough. After a while I noticed I could no longer hear my friends.. “Hello, guys are you there?” I shouted, no response. I decided to go upstairs to see if they already went there, “I doubt it” I thought.
When I reached the end of the hallway I instantly noticed that there was no staircase.. “What the” I whispered. So the first thing that came to my mind was to check the last room in the hall. When I entered it was just a normal room, except one thing.. it had a closet, that was a feature that the other rooms didn't have. When I opened the closet I was up for a surprise. It was empty but there were some bricks that were a little bit pushed out of the wall, then i noticed something, the bricks formed a stair. I carefully climbed the “stair” and when I got to the top there was a hole large enough for a person to get trough. And guess where it led upstairs of course. When i turned on my flashlight again, I instantly remembered about my friends. “Katy John! Where are you?” I scram there was nothing I could hear but my echo and then complete silence. When i walked out of the room upstairs I was in the exact same hallway from downstairs but this time, where there was supposed to be a elevator there was a big window.
When I look downstairs from the window I saw a tree and.. a persons shadow but there was no person and there was no light source except the moon and the stars. I could not believe my eyes, but then I remembered, what if its just Katy or John. Since they were playing a prank on me I shined my flashlight on the dark shadow. As soon as the first ray of light hit the shadow the figure moved its head and then disappeared into the darkness of the night. I was paralyzed, I literally could not move. I did not know what to do. Suddenly I felt a cold wind coming from behind me hitting my neck, it felt like needles to my back. When I slowly turned around I saw something that I could not describe…
It was.. It was the closet and when I looked up the hole was there and the bricks and the door everything was there. I turned around to see if the window was there and to my surprise, it was not there just like it never existed. I was speechless. I quickly ran out the room into the hallway and out the front door. I escaped, but at what prize? Since that day my friends were never to be found again. But sometimes when i turn on my Walkie Talkie I could hear whispers that sound like a boy and a girl arguing. Nobody knows what happened and nobody will ever know what happened.
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